Policy Priorities
Holding the bureaucracy accountable
Preventing bureaucratic abuses
Cutting red tape
Reducing Crony Capitalism
Preventing discrimination based on immutable characteristics
Protecting freedom of speech from cancel culture and tech censorship
The American republic was founded as a government by, for, and of the people, to defend the people’s rights — but sadly that aspiration at times seems like a distant dream. Policymakers empower unelected bureaucracies that rule huge swaths of American life. Legislative, judicial, and executive power has become concentrated within the regulatory agencies themselves. As a result, regulatory agencies effect massive shifts in policy that elected representatives never voted on. Various protections empower the career bureaucrats to pursue their own preferred policies with little regard to the views of elected officials. What began two-and-a-half centuries ago as man’s greatest experiment in self-governance looks now like rule without consent of the governed. Meanwhile, the federal government ignores growing threats to American liberties like cancel culture, tech censorship, and state-sanctioned racial discrimination. The Center for American Freedom exists to defend American freedom from both government and non-governmental threats. It will conduct research and generate policies that cut the red tape of burdensome regulations, defend fundamental rights, and restore American governance as originally intended.
The Founders designed the Constitution to protect the people’s rights and hold the government accountable. They believed that concentrated power was vulnerable to abuse, so they divided federal authority between executive, legislative, and judicial branches. They further required the executive and legislative branches to regularly stand for re-election, holding policymakers accountable to those they govern. And they strictly limited the federal government’s authority, leaving most governing power to state and local government. The contemporary administrative state circumvents these constitutional protections. The federal government needs to return to these constitutional safeguards that protect Americans’ liberties. It also needs to take vigorous action to defend the American people’s rights from emerging non-governmental threats, such as cancel culture and tech censorship.
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March 13, 2025
REPORT: 95% of Career Federal Employees Who Email about Politics at Work Express Liberal Views
Almost all federal workers are career employees. Of the approximately 2.2 million civilian positions in the federal executive branch, fewer than 5,000 are filled by political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President. The rest are filled by career employees who keep their jobs no matter who wins the next election. This allows most federal employees to develop experience and institutional expertise—something that would be impossible if the federal employees were replaced en masse every time a new president took office.
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March 13, 2025
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: 95% of Career Federal Employees Who E-mail About Politics at Work Express Liberal Views
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January 8, 2025
Tales From the Swamp: How Federal Bureaucrats Resisted President Trump
American democracy operates on the principle of government by the consent of the governed. Americans regularly elect the president and Members of Congress. However, difficult-to-fire career employees with entrenched job security—not political appointees who serve at the discretion of the president—perform most federal work. These employees’ jobs do not depend on election outcomes. Career employees thus exercise federal power without adequate transparency and democratic accountability.
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Harris Ban on Gas-Powered Cars Would Eliminate 200,000 Auto Jobs
Would you like your next car to be gas-powered or electric? Many in Washington want to eliminate that choice. New federal regulations issued by the Biden-Harris Administration already sharply limit gas-powered car sales. Kamala Harris has proposed banning gas-powered car sales altogether. This would hurt drivers — and devastate the economy, especially in Michigan and the industrial Midwest.
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Biden-Harris Administration Reinstates FIRED VA Employees
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